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by henearkr 5y ago
This is also one thing that I dispute: knowing the origin will not make the world better, because a lab leak is theoretically impossible anyway, given the lab safety standards. So I doubt that knowing the leak would change the outcome in th
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by henearkr 5y ago
The author is contradicting himself: said that virus engineering is done by splicing of existing other coronavirii, and then also said that the two codons CGG is very unusual for coronavirii. Splicing is also naturally done everywhere and a
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by henearkr 5y ago
To keep it simple: are there benefits of calling them out? Are you really just in search of scientific truth, and is this science useful in this context of present and maybe future crisis? My point is that actually it (the calling out) is
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by henearkr 5y ago
The optimal binding for humans would have been SARS-COV1 at that time, so the fact it was not reused shows the suboptimality.
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by henearkr 5y ago
I mean, just compare the advantage of (I'm taking the point of vue of Japan here): - being friend with all your neighbors and having a couple less islands, to which you could go in vacations just fine anyway, or - having your islands b
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by henearkr 5y ago
I'd love more information if you have. Because per se it does not prove the claim of bioengineering.
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by henearkr 5y ago
Once the situation was out they did everything properly to fix it at home, and then even contributed to the science work on the virus (just not on the lab origin hypothesis, but all other work on the virus structure, illness mechanisms, pot
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by henearkr 5y ago
Agree totally. I'd add that, while China is ready to help and take part in the global fight against the covid, a finger-pointing shaming war against them would probably (as it already did several times) trigger the very Asian reaction
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by henearkr 5y ago
As I understand it, it was detected by the radar too, so that eliminates the possibility of a mirage.
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by henearkr 5y ago
At least that's better than loud exhaust pipes. Loud bikes activate the fight-or-flight system in a way that klaxons do not. Maybe that's because the loud bikes have frequencies and intonation modulation close to those of a menaci
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by henearkr 5y ago
I believe the solution is not loud noises. There are plenty of other options.
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by henearkr 5y ago
That should not be necessary. Bicycles don't need it, do they? Moreover, with modern blind spot cameras, automatic collision avoidance systems (which will probably, cheaply, equip every electric car), I hope these concerns will complet
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by henearkr 5y ago
I believe that by "the sound of those big bikes" the commenter does not know the bike characteristics other than by their sound, so it's the same either with a physically small or big bike: what he is stating is that he does
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by henearkr 5y ago
The last paragraph makes me perplexed. If I create a religion saying that the only worth purpose in life is to own one of my drawings, and then I make 10 of them, and then I get the whole Earth population to believe this religion, my drawin
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by henearkr 5y ago
If you mean that the price of the bitcoin is thus limited by a ceiling, hopefully not far from the current value, and if you are right, I would be reassured, for sure. Only, it's the complete opposite of the story told to us, in the in
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by henearkr 5y ago
What worries me is if crypto miners and crypto buyers, whose belief in cryptocurrencies is closer to a religion, would progressively lock more and more of these renewables for mining. Now it's still 0.5% of the world's electricity
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by henearkr 5y ago
> Bitcoin currently consumes around 110 Terawatt Hours per year — 0.55% of global electricity production Source: https://hbr.org/2021/05/how-much-energy-does-bitcoin-actuall...
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by henearkr 5y ago
Your comment is just whataboutism: You point out other ways to improve our energy consumption to avoid touching to your beloved crypto mining. While it could be both.
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by henearkr 5y ago
So, thanks to cheap renewables, now, instead of a dying planet and an expensive BTC, we'll have a dying planet and a cheap BTC? Or will we be smart enough to chose to what use we put our energy?
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by henearkr 5y ago
Exactly. So e2e makes sense only when the client is open source too. Signal got this right.
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by henearkr 5y ago
Nopah virus, ebola, these are two examples where we have been very lucky, and the only reason they did not spread too much internationally was that they originated in regions with very strong political regimes.
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by henearkr 5y ago
I have many things to reply to this, but I don't feel like Hacker News, and especially this sumbission, is the right place for that. Please drop me an email if you want.
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by henearkr 5y ago
First of all, you need to understand that many Japanese people want to change their country. Yes, in Japan too, "left" and "right" are 50/50. The recognition that a form of organization is imperfect is very differen
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by henearkr 5y ago
The "good" neighbor/citizen is the one able to explain how to improve on a flawed rule. The avoidance of conflict extends to an avoidance of even merely justifying oneself, or of any "rational" (rikei) discussion. A
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by henearkr 5y ago
Wow I had the same "backfire" experience saying that the neighbor/neighborhood ("kinjo") was forcing stupid behavior on them and that they were not compelled to obey them nor to fear them. To me it seemed like the k
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by henearkr 5y ago
I'd say it's more cultural than linguistic. Pure politeness is as well present in French, but in Japan it's an aversion to openly and directly confront others. You don't have it in Osaka as much as in Tokyo or Kyoto (tha
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by henearkr 5y ago
Was you complaint about something related to Japan or the life there or the administration? Japanese people very easily feel compelled to defend their group, because if not they are often treated as "anti-japanese" by the most rig
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by henearkr 5y ago
To more specifically address the problem of ownership, as it is based on "declared ownership" anyway, with no real way to prevent non-owner to use the artwork (except by seeing that it is not theirs and punishing them, but then yo
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by henearkr 5y ago
We're speaking about digital work... One aim of digitalization is to get data that is perfectly transferable and copiable. Now if you want to artificially and needlessly make the copying cost some megajoules of energy, you will undergo
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by henearkr 5y ago
You don't need the blockchain to have a public key. Https certificates and PGP signatures are some examples perfectly fine without requiring the whole world to make bazillions of hash calculations on your block.

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